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CHAPTER 29: The Blood in the Message

ผู้เขียน: Elian Grey
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Raine

I was going to scream when the lights flickered out again. Cassian fell, bleeding, and then I saw it. The writing on the wall.

The crimson message was written across the wall in bold, trembling letters. A threat, a declaration, and a vow.

"You stole from me. Now I steal back."

The blood used wasn’t just Cassian’s. Malik crouched beside the fallen body of Julian, his shirt soaked through, fingers shaking as he checked for a pulse that never came.

"Dead," Malik rasped.

Julian—Julian, who had carried us through fire and hell to get here, was gone.

Cassian wheezed beside me. “They knew we’d come here… This wasn’t a strike—it was a trap.”

Pandora was already moving, clearing the safe house, gun at the ready, teeth clenched. "We have to go. We're compromised."

"But we were supposed to be safe," I whispered. "Roman promised—"

"Well, well, Roman's dead," she snarled. "And Sierra is not."

The gruff sound of Cassian fighting for breath jolted me back to reality. I held his face. "We have
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